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Nature Genetics 38, 716–720 (1 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/ng1806

Conserved requirement for a plant host cell protein in powdery mildew pathogenesis

Chiara Consonni , Matthew E Humphry , H Andreas Hartmann , Maren Livaja , J|[ouml]|rg Durner , Lore Westphal , John Vogel , Volker Lipka , Birgit Kemmerling , Paul Schulze-Lefert , Shauna C Somerville & Ralph Panstruga

In the fungal phylum Ascomycota, the ability to cause disease in plants and animals has been gained and lost repeatedly during phylogenesis. In monocotyledonous barley, loss-of-function mlo alleles result in effective immunity against the Ascomycete Blumeria graminis f.